I went out for a ride on my winter hardtail this morning. It was -7°c at the bottom. The dropper, an RSP Plummet (which has been faultless so far and somewhat of a bargain), had a frozen lever and the post wouldn’t stay down. Inelegant but functional use of a bungee chord saved the day, but I’m wondering if this is normal, a downside of mechanically operated droppers? My Reverb on the other bike has been fine in the cold. Seemed like the cable was sticking as it stayed loose and I couldn’t get it to tension when the post was down. Should I grease the cables or mechansim? Is there anything I can do? Tis is my first non-Reverb post.
Your suggestions are appreciated in advance.
Cheers

My KS did the same at -10, poured tea on it which sorted it and got me going again.

Pump the lever 3 times, fully compress the post, hold it down for 10 seconds, close your eyes and wish to be a snowman, then just Let It Go!

That was awful, I’ll see myself out.

😀

Davosaurus wins! 🙂

That’s the way to Fixer Dropper.

Don’t let it hold you back any more…

Oh God, I used to be cool 😥

Winter is a good time to stay in and cuddle but put me in summer and I’ll be a…

Happy Dropper

Cables can get moisture in and then freeze up. Happens to gears as well.

Keep them WD-40ed up in the winter.

Had to pee on a frozen freehub once, that worked well

For the hard of thinking, how would one go about doing this? Removing the inner from the outer, giving it a slather and popping it back in?

Wouldn’t use anything to heavy, light grease/heavy oil on the cable. Oil the outers too.